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Mark’s drawing tutorials (Great advice for any level)

If you’re looking for inspiration or are a bit lost when it comes to drawing, need some re-inspiration. Here you have some of Mark’s drawing tutorials. They are very helpful for all skill levels and fall onto the technique and method part while not being so technical, mostly inspirational. Some eye opener material over here.

How to become a berson who can get good at drawing

The last and most important part about getting better at drawing!

How to git gud through practice

UV Map checker online generator

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Time for this nifty online tool that generates a customized UV Map Tile checker, play with parameters like thickness, color palette and even Index and numbers to personalize your UV map needs. On a side note, I’ve never thought that rounded quads could look so cool on a UV map checker.

http://uvchecker.byvalle.com/

GPU Browser based render

The future is here guys, if anyone is interested on rendering directly from the web, those quick product previews and obj renders from your favorite sculpting application can be imported as OBJ to “Light Tracer Render”.

Super easy to use and fast for previews, give it a try over at: https://lighttracer.org/app.html

Dual Boot & Windows 10 /7 on HP Z800

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And I still refuse to update from Windows 7 to Windows 10 however certain applications are just running now on Windows 10, even some Wifi PCi cards do the same so for the time being I want to have a dual boot Windows 7 + Windows 10 machine.

So lets get to it.

You’ll need the following:

  1. One extra Hard drive, preferably an SSD and a Caddy adapter so you can fit it onto your HP hot slot quickly if you need to remove it.
  2. One 8GB minimum USB memory (USB 3 preferred but Z800 only has USB 2)
  3. Windows 10 Iso image from here: https://www.microsoft.com/es-mx/software-download/windows10
  4. Download media creation tool and when prompted select Upgrade another computer/Create ISO/Save the iso on your PC
  5. Get Rufus USB Bootable maker tool https://rufus.ie/
  6. On Rufus select the ISO from Windows 10
  7. Select partition Scheme MBR and target system BIOS

After that’s done, get the USB on your HP z800 reboot and make sure that boot from USB drive is enabled.

Run windows install normally, if you have multiple hard drives, make sure to delete the partitions for the drive you’re going to use as system drive for windows 10 this is to avoid the Windows cannot be installed to this disk GPT error.

Et voilá, if you need to select the order, go to msconfig and under BOOT make sure you have both operating systems listed.

Anatomía del Amor – Album and Cover design

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Tomorrow is the premiere of one of the best projects i’ve had the pleasure of working with, the cover and design for the next Aleks Syntek’s album “Anatomía del Amor”.

I hope to share some of the process on the upcoming days. Stay tuned!!!

Download Japanese Illustration and Animation Books

Here’s a neat website with EPUB and PDF version of many requested and extremely useful japanese anime, anatomy, illustration, background and animation books.

https://b-ok.lat/book/5003929/1243bf?dsource=recommend

Referencias Fotográficas POSEBOOKS Japoneses

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Great website with tons of photographs for pose references, rotation and multiple angles.

http://mmanga.net/people001/

OmniPhotos 360 + VR Capture at once

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Check this method for capturing “Stereo” VR photos with a single 360° camera and a very clever system.

Sample
How is it captured

Gallery and results comparison: https://richardt.name/publications/omniphotos/results/build/index.html

Code and samples included on the main website + github: https://richardt.name/publications/omniphotos/

Endless landscape with AI and GAN

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So this amazing code brings you to incorporate several landscapes onto a unlimited background, it has also been tested with interiors.

                     Summary
We develop a  method to generate infinite high-resolution images with diverse and  complex content. It is based on a perfectly equivariant generator with  synchronous interpolations in the image and latent spaces. Latent codes,  when sampled, are positioned on the coordinate grid, and each pixel is  computed from an interpolation of the nearby style codes. We modify the  AdaIN mechanism to work in such a setup and train the generator in an  adversarial setting to produce images positioned between any two latent  vectors. At test time, this allows for generating complex and diverse  infinite images and connecting any two unrelated scenes into a single  arbitrarily large panorama. Apart from that, we introduce LHQ: a new  dataset of 90k high-resolution nature landscapes. We test the approach  on LHQ, LSUN Tower and LSUN Bridge and outperform the baselines by at  least 4 times in terms of quality and diversity of the produced infinite  images.

https://universome.github.io/alis

LG PF1500 Stuck on On Off Loop

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Thanks to this post: https://www.avsforum.com/threads/lg-pf1500-stuck-in-on-off-loop.2754641/
I managed to fix my LED projector, the device suddenly began an On/Off cycle after a few minutes being turned on, with less than 7000hrs on the lamp I suspected there was something else going on but didn’t know what, to my surprise after finding the post, it turned out to be a burned Inductor.

Got it from mouser.mx “IHLP5050FDER1R0M8A” for about 7 USD, removed it from the old Inductor from PCB and soldered the new one.

To my surprise everything works great now.

Before:

Before, you can clearly see the 1R0 Inductor burnt on the top.
After the Inductor was removed and new solder was added
With the new soldered part
With the new Inductor, working great

On a side note, I noticed that the projector heats less than before, I cannot tell why however I noticed that the fans run now smoothly without having to go manually to set the energy mode to Minimum again.